Can only be used on Windswept, Titan-Touched, Frigid & Decayed buff Herbs. Not a buff, single on use with 12 hour cooldown (Cooldown decreases when picking herbs on Dragon Isles), must be near buffed herb to use ability
- Windswept - Launched in to the air, while falling down you fall down onto flowers in the air collecting 1 random herb per flower & Rousing Air (similar to fox flower in legion)
- Titan-Touched - Opens a portal and ports you to a random herb node around you (make sure to pick the Titan-Touched herb before taking portal gives Rousing Order)
- Frigid - Spawns a Overloaded frost, a neutral mob that can be attacked and spawns Rousing Frost herb nodes, giving 2-6 Rousing Frost per pick (also a snowball randomly)
- Decayed - Spawns a withering mob, when killed gives Rousing Decay and the original decayed herb (make sure to jump after looting)
- Infurious - Knocks back mobs from the herb node & grants the normal Fury of Battle buff, chance to get Rousing Ire from killing players, 2 minute buff, duration can be extended with more herb & mining gathers (can only be gathered in WarMode)
- You can still pick the original herb node after using Overload
- Does not work on Lush herb nodes
- 10.1 - Lambent Herb - Spawns a mushroom NPC that runs around with tiny green orbs falling around, running through them gives the item Zaralek Glowspores
- 10.2 - Overgrown Herb - Overloading an Overgrown herb causes you to cast Dream Atonement, when cast is finished, you will get a mix of herbs. Normally picking overgrown herb spawns a treant that then runs away, you have to pick it while it's running which can cause issues with nerby mobs or no movement ability to keep up. Oberloading bypasses this all together
Spell
Overload Elemental Herb
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If you're having a dumb moment like me, and wondering how the hell to activate this, it's a spell you can put on your cast bar. To find it, open your spellbook > general tab (NOT under the professions tab).
You can use this ability near any special Elemental herb. Doing so will "overload" it, which gives you an effect depending on the type of element:
- [spell=391562] - reveals a block of ice that you can attack to spawn multiple [object=382075]s which you can pick for extra random herbs and Rousing Frost
- Overload Windswept Herb - launches you into the air and lets you collect extra herbs and Rousing Air in the air while falling slowly
- Overload Titan-Touched Herb - increases the amount of Rousing Order that will drop from the herb, and opens a [spell=390400] which you can use to travel to another nearby herb (this is often buggy and might teleport you to where you already are)
- [spell=391564] - spawns a hostile [npc=197366] that you can kill for some extra random herbs and Rousing Decay
- [spell=391558] (War Mode only) - will cast a shockwave that knocks back enemies and gives you the [spell=388830] buff
- [spell=405134] (Zaralek Caverns) - spawns a spore creature that drops extra Zaralek Glowspores on the ground and gives you the [spell=407326] buff
The first time you overload each type of elemental herb you will also get 1 [currency=2034], so it's worth doing at least once for every type.
The cooldown for this ability is 12 hours, but each time you pick a herb it will get reduced by 30 minutes (more if you have specialized deeper into the Mastering the Elements tree).
If you are a dual herbalist/miner, you can combine the new [spell=407326] buff from Herbalism with [spell=407319] from Mining to create [item=204911] which contains even more Zaralek Glowspores.
Tooltip
Overload a nearby elemental herb.
The cooldown of this ability is reduced whenever you gather herbs native to the Dragon Isles.
Spell facts
Datamined from the current retail build. Numbers that scale with level or stats are shown at their base value.
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